Michael Pollitt Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

London, Gb

Working as a senior manager in KPMG’s forensic team focusing on anti-corruption, modern slavery, and other areas of financial crime, for clients in the financial services sector

London, Gb

Fulham, London, Gb

• Provided business ethics, human rights and anti-corruption assessment and advisory services for financial institutions, government bodies and some of the world’s largest multinational companies• Worked on-site in Eastern Europe (Ukraine), North Africa (Algeria, Egypt), East Africa (Eritrea), Middle East (Saudi Arabia, Qatar), Southeast Asia (Indonesia), North America (USA) and South America (Brazil)Highlights included:• Working with a major Middle Eastern government authority to establish its first ever anti-corruption programme, by providing capacity-building support for the internal anti-corruption team • Leading a project to redevelop the code of conduct of a major Saudi Arabian construction company, then working with the company to establish an internal ethics and compliance training institution• Leading a human rights impact assessment of an Indonesian palm oil producer, before providing recommendations on how the producer’s human rights impact could be improved• Leading a London- and Paris-based team of consultants on a project to develop a new code of conduct for one of the world’s largest video-gaming companies• Working with one of the world’s largest luxury fashion groups to benchmark its human rights performance against competitors before designing its new human rights strategy • Conducting a gap analysis of the ethics and compliance policies in place among the portfolio companies of a major London/Hong Kong private equity firm, before recommending improvements • Leading teams of local and international consultants on various human rights impact assessments across southern Brazil for companies in the agriculture and metalwork industries

London, Gb

• Provided research and advice for projects on human rights, education and religion• Lobbied successfully for the addition of supply chain reporting to UK slavery law • Convened a conference of the top government suppliers, on supply chain transparency, resulting in the addition of slavery guidelines to the government’s procurement policy• Designed an initiative to share best practice in slavery legislation between Commonwealth parliaments currently being piloted by a leading Commonwealth charity• Arranged a seminar of religious leaders to discuss areas of overlap in their ethical codes of conduct, as part of an ongoing project to develop a ‘Social Highway Code’ for schools

Ma (Hons) Arabic And Latin (First Class)

Ma Islamic Societies And Cultures (Distinction)